Word Meanings - BRAWNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong. "Brawny limbs." W. Irving. Syn. -- Muscular; fleshy; strong; bulky; sinewy; athletic; stalwart; powerful; robust.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRAWNY)

• Athletic
• Strong
• vigorous
• powerful
• stalwart
• brawny
• muscular
• ablebodied
• lusty
• sinewy
• robust
• Bulky
• Huge
• unwieldy
• heavy
• large
• ample
• ponderous
• burly
• cumbrous
• gigantic
• massive
• Fat
• Corpulent
• fleshy
• pursy
• rich
• luxuriant
• portly
• stout
• fertile
• unctuous
• obese
• oleaginous
• Lusty
• Robust
• strong
• able-bodied
• healthy
• corpulent
• Muscular
• Powerful
• athletic
• sturdy

Related words: (words related to BRAWNY)

• STALWARTLY
  In a stalwart manner.
• BULKY
  Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• MASSIVELY
  In a heavy mass.
• AMPLENESS
  The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.
• STRONGYLOID
  Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
• ABLE-BODIED
  Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust. "Able-bodied vagrant." Froude. -- A`ble-bod"ied*ness, n..
• PONDEROUSLY
  In a ponderous manner.
• VIGOROUS
  1. Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant. Famed for his valor, young, At sea successful, vigorous and strong. Waller. 2. Exhibiting strength, either
• ATHLETICISM
  The practice of engaging in athletic games; athletism.
• OLEAGINOUSNESS
  Oiliness. Boyle.
• STRONGYLID
  Strongyloid.
• CORPULENT
  1. Very fat; obese. 2. Solid; gross; opaque. Holland. Syn. -- Stout; fleshy; bulky; obese. See Stout.
• GIGANTIC
  1. Of extraordinary size; like a giant. 2. Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. Milton. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Strom wind of the equinox.
• OBESENESS
  Quality of being obese; obesity.
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• PORTLY
  1. Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing. 2. Bulky; corpulent. "A portly personage." Dickens.
• GIGANTICAL
  Bulky, big. Burton. -- Gi*gan"tic*al*ly, adv.
• LUXURIANTLY
  In a luxuriant manner.
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• NERVOMUSCULAR
  Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
• INFERTILELY
  In an infertile manner.